Scheduling

Barb comes home from pickleball every Friday afternoon complaining about the pickleball court assignments that are used to schedule her games with the ladies.  She seems to always be playing with the same people and not getting to play at all with others.  She was complaining to the organizer lady and the lady said she got her court assignment schedules from an internet bridge tournament scheduling site.  I used to do schedules for my fastball leagues and Barb thought I could write better schedules.  The lady said it was very difficult but then she thought about it and realized I could probably do it.  Barb was telling me all this.  So I said I could try it.  So that is how I started writing a optimization program for Barb's pickleball court assignments that would take me all month.  All the ladies were very excited to see the new schedules.